The Tail of the Dragon isn’t for sight-seeing, its surroundings are heavily wooded and the bends are anything but mild. However, the dynamic series of hairpin turns, dips, and esses are more than enough to keep driver and passenger engaged.
The story of the Revs Institute begins when Miles Collier acquired the Cunningham Museum and started adding to the collection of important vehicles. Recent partnership with Stanford University has made this museum one of the world’s preeminent sources of automotive information.
If you’re a fan of automobiles, it’s a safe bet you’ve dreamed of high-speed travel down Germany’s network of unrestricted highways. Legends of the Autobahn is an annual car show and Concours d’Elegance that caters specifically to the cars that were made for this legendary roadway.
For the past 25 years, Monterey Car Week has been ushered in by a party that showcases the best of the automotive world. The event garners advertisements from the most exclusive marques, like Koenigsegg and Pagani, seeking to showcase their wares to only the most qualified of buyers.
If you’re not in California for Monterey Car Week, or just looking to avoid the traffic at Pebble Beach, Michigan has a world-class concours to break the routine. For over ten years, the Lake Bluff Concours d’Elegance has attracted nearly 100 well-vetted vehicles from the brass era to the late post-war period.
Midway through Monterey Car Week there’s a large event for everything small. For the past six years, The Little Car Show has been the nexus of microcars, minis, and subcompacts on the Monterey peninsula.
People who are not auto enthusiasts might find the concept of ‘bonding’ with a car strange. After all, how can you form an emotional attachment with an inanimate object? Anyone reading this piece wouldn’t have a problem with the idea but let me elaborate- so you might be better prepared the next time some well meaning but dense friend, relative or stranger attacks you for your incomprehensible behavior.
The third annual Carmel Mission Classic is Monterey’s only source for physical, spiritual, and automotive sustenance. It’s a laid-back car show set around the timeless architecture of Carmel Mission Basilica. Proceeds benefit local charities as well as the restoration of the Basilica, a national landmark that has occupied the Monterey peninsula for almost two and a half centuries.
The 18th Fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links becomes a time machine for one day only during the capstone concours of the Monterey Car Week. This fleeting event packs the exemplars of the golden age of automobiles onto the well-groomed strands of California’s central coast.
